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Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
Follow, poet, follow right
To the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
Still persuade us to rejoice.
With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress.
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountains start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
– – WH Auden
Sometimes it seems I had a dream, and, as a dreamer woke immersed in mineral baths closed within a cool, dark chamber fed by streams flowing in from the center of nowhere.
Hanging from the granite ceiling a kerosene lantern cast shards of light through the pale steam rising from the surface of the pools.
Ripples radiated outwards from the edges of my body and tapping faintly on the rock revealed the edges of the chamber.
Outside I could hear the wind slide across the spine of the mountains, speaking in a language that I remembered but could no longer understand.
Steam filled my nostrils and heat penetrated my bones until, after a time, I had no body, only a sense of silence and distance and calm.
As if I had just woken from all water into dream.
— Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, 1973
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The steel mill sky is alive.
The fire breaks white and zigzag
shot on a gun-metal gloaming.
Man is a long time coming.
Man will yet win.
Brother may yet line up with brother:
This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can’t be bought.
The fireborn are at home in fire.
The stars make no noise,
You can’t hinder the wind from blowing.
Time is a great teacher.
Who can live without hope?
In the darkness with a great bundle of grief
the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people
march:
“Where to? what next?”
— Carl Sandberg
Down valley a smoke haze
Three days heat, after five days rain
Pitch glows on the fir-cones
Across rocks and meadows
Swarms of new flies.
I cannot remember things I once read
A few friends, but they are in cities.
Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup
Looking down for miles
Through high still air.
BY GARY SNYDER
Starry-eyed an’ laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an’ we watched with one last look
Spellbound an’ swallowed ’til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
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That is no country for old men. The young
In one another’s arms, birds in the trees
—Those dying generations—at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.
O sages standing in God’s holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
– – W. B. Yeats, 1865 – 1939
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained
thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.
— Robinson Jeffers
Sometimes it seems I had a dream, and, as a dreamer woke immersed in mineral baths closed within a cool, dark chamber fed by streams flowing in from the center of nowhere.
Hanging from the granite ceiling a kerosene lantern cast shards of light through the pale steam rising from the surface of the pools.
Ripples radiated outwards from the edges of my body and tapping faintly on the rock revealed the edges of the chamber.
Outside I could hear the wind slide across the spine of the mountains, speaking in a language that I remembered but could no longer understand.
Steam filled my nostrils and heat penetrated my bones until, after a time, I had no body, only a sense of silence and distance and calm.
As if I had just woken from all water into dream.
— Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, 1973
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What am I missing here?
Honest men.
Searching for our own Diogenes.
And if I recall Diogenes wandered the earth with his lantern in search of one honest man. Finding none, he retreated to live out the end of his days in a cave.
History teaches that pandemic is followed by war (looks like things are right on track) and ending in famine.
Look all you want and good luck..
Post that video to Facebook, NextDoor, Twitter or several other social networks that I don’t cavort with… and you will be banned permanently… I bet. Orwell described the “memory hole” and that is FJB’s brain by definition.
Biden made that Ukrainian schmuck an offer he couldn’t refuse. The US government operates as a Mafia family without the honor or the cannoli.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHzh0PvMWTI
Ukraine was—among other things—a huge money-laundering operation, extortion racket and overseas bank for the Biden Crime Family. All that is over now. No wonder he and his handlers squeal like stuck hogs.
Biden as the Godfather. Pelosi as his overseer. Hunter as the family ne’er-do-well. Obama as the Consigliere. Harris as the pass-around moll. Romney and Graham as button men.
Slight quibble.
Obama or Soros as the Godfather. Schumer as the Consigliere. Biden as the Front Man.
Hunter is still Fredo. And Michelle is Luca Brasi.
I like yours better. Make sure Big Mike makes that meeting with Bruno Tattaglia and Virgil “The Turk” Sollozzo.
But does he get the good uncut peanut butter fudge rock?
He can handle it.
Loving the high as a kite Hunter sticker at the gas pumps right next to the I hope the gas prices don’t get too high.
Note that the audience there was largely press.
Their response to this rather stunning admission was basically chuckles and smirks. (00:53 and 01:06)
Speaks more volumes than Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Going OT here:
Check out Ace of Spades right now. 2/28/22, 3:50 pm. The truth is coming out about the covid origins. And it’s just what you’d expect. No accident at all.
My comment:
What conceivable good could possibly come from creating a new, and deadly virus? Here’s the short answer: none. This is pure, unadulterated evil. Accidental leak excuses nothing. If someone builds a lethal device, and another dies from it, the creator is guilty of murder. The intention behind creating such a Frankenstein monster was to kill, and kill it did.
This constitutes the single greatest crime in the history of the human race. If you have one to top it, let me know.
We need full disclose. Public executions for EVERYONE involved, right down to the janitors who scrub the floors at Wuhan. Maybe even fucking nukes. I want to see gallows as in Nuremberg, and white coats swinging from them.
JWM.
The reasons and most of the cucks behind that virus were revealed long before it was dumped on humanity. The NWO objective has been population reduction on a mass scale in a short period of time and it seems to be working on a large chunk of the world’s population, when really all that is needed is a deep pit filled with the heads of the sons-of-bitches who are behind the plans.
JWM,
“I want to see gallows as in Nuremberg, and white coats swinging from them.”
I absolutely agree with your statement…..and not just “white coats”. I would also add to the list suits in politics and talking heads in media. Crimes against humanity and there are plenty of bad actors within our own government. Looking at you Fauci, Collins, Daszak and others.
As a matter of fact, the ball is already rolling in that direction. In the World Court complaints have been filed. A German lawyer, whose name escapes me at the moment and I am too lazy to dig for it, has filed an action.
Here, locally and across the country there are filings of proposed indictments against Pfizer, Moderna, NIAID, CDC, FDA, Ralph Baric, Peter Daszak, Anthony Fauci and Alex Azar for Acts of Domestic Terrorism – 18 USC 2331 @ 802, Conspiring to Commit Acts of Terrorism – 18 USC 2339, Funding and Creating a Biological Weapon – 18 USC 175, Market Manipulation and Allocation – 15 USC 8, and more.
Look at Bonds for the Win – https://bondsforthewin.com.
The strategy is to file petitions of Proposed Indictment with Federal, State and County Prosecutors. If the respective attorneys fail to move to the next level ie; file criminal complaints against the accused, then the next move by the parties filing the proposal is to go after the surety bonds of each, which will then bring on a shitstorm of legal woes individually to each attorney.
We did it here in my county and so have many other across the country. All these filings were executed on Monday February 14, for the love of humanity and country.
With respect to my comment above re; History and the fellow travelers of Pandemic – War – Famine, the pandemic phase is ending, the war has already begun, and famine is already taking hold in many countries in the less-developed parts of the world. There is no doubt in my mind that what has been loosed upon the world is a massive depopulation play. All of these ruling class weasels are Malthusian acolytes. Just go read their stuff. They are greedy, selfish and evil people.
This is not going to be forgotten. It won’t simply be a change of the elected ones to a new brand of politicos and everything is back to normal. Accountability must be demanded.